American Petroleum Institute Photograph and Film Collection
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American Petroleum Institute.
- Dates:
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1860s-1980s
bulk 1955-1990
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45 cubic feet (122 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0711
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes historic photographs, slides and films on subjects relating to all aspects of the petroleum industry, including exploration, drilling, refineries, tankers, pipelines, automobiles, trucks, aviation, refueling, buildings, coal, gasification, plants, mining, surface mining, fields, land reclamation, coastal zone management, corporate public service, educational programs, crude oil, deepwater ports, and watercraft It also documents numerous products other than gasoline produced by the petroleum industry, such as propane, lubricants, heating oil, and plastics.
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Considine, John E.
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bulk 1964-1969
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0.2 cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2017.0046
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 199 cardboard mounted 35mm color slides. Accompanying the slides are CDs of scans made by the donor. The collection also contains twenty-one 4 by 6 inch color prints of images that are in the slides/CDs. Photos were taken in and around Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand; U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airf...
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Voortmeyer, William B.
- Dates:
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1928
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0.05 cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0908
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the 50.25 by 34 inch route map used by the crew of the Fokker F.VIIB-3m "Southern Cross" in 1928. The map is from the US Department of the Navy, Hydrographic Office, "North Pacific Ocean, Eastern Part," 121st ed., with the route marked by William B. Voortmeyer, and shows his instructions on magnetic declination and expec...
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Garduno, Carlos.
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bulk 1930-1991
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0.4 cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0036
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Ehis collection consists of the following items chronicling the aviation career of Colonel Carlos Garduno: En Guardia, volume 1, no. 9; ASI, August 11, 1945; newspaper articles, 1945-1991; material relating to the El Escuadron 201 reunion; Form One, February 1942 issue, April 1942 issue, and Anniversary Issue, May 1942; El Pilot, Sep.-Oct. 1930; 81...
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Smerdon, John Earl, Jr.
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bulk 1945-1963
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0.28 cubic feet ((2 containers))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2013.0035
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
EThis collection consists of papers relating to John Earl Smerdon, Jr.'s military career including log books, pilot's licenses, photographs, correspondence, military records, and newsclippings. The log books cover the years of 1945-1963. The photographs are almost exclusively black and white and range in size from 3.5 by 2.5 inches up to 8 by 10 in...
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Boeing Company
- Dates:
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1952-1985
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6.75 cubic feet (15 legal document boxes; 1 flatbox)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0013
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of documentation for Boeing's postwar commercial aircraft programs.
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Scherbatskoy, Serge A., 1908-2002
- Dates:
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1925-2002
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17 cubic feet (39 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0936
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the professional career and business interests of inventor Serge A. Scherbatskoy, who specialized in petroleum geophysics. Papers include laboratory notebooks, license agreements, correspondence, blue line prints, patent litigation files, newspaper clippings, reference files, patents, promotional literature, and audio-visual materials.
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Smith, Lawrence V. (Lawrence Victor), 1931-2010
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1970 - 2010
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31 cubic feet (31 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1314
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains the product of Smith's life's work as an industrial and transportation photographer. It consists of approximately 120,000 35mm color slides of various industrial and transportation subjects. Transportation is the larger subject area, including such topics as trucks, vehicles, transit, traffic, railroads, ships, etc. The slid...
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Bickley, Everett H., 1888-1972
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1919-1980
bulk 1919-1965
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5 cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0683
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Everett H. Bickley Collection, 1919-1980, documents the inventions of Everett Huckel Bickley, most known for his electric sorting machine used to automate the process of sorting beans by use of a photoelectric cell. The collection consists of patents, drawings, photographs, correspondence, and artifacts designed by Bickley. The collection spans a considerable portion of the twentieth century and is of value to those researchers interested in product development, the patent application process, product marketing and promotion, World War II innovation, and the daily operation of a small, privately-owned industry.
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National Museum of American History. Division of Transportation
- Dates:
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1946-1985
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15.5 cu. ft. (15 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (oversize matierals)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 528
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of curator's day journals, 1946-1956; a manuscript copy, Wheels and Wheeling: The Smithsonian Cycle Collection, 1974; and administrative files of the Division of Transportation concerning such matters as gifts and grants, annual budgets, minutes of meetings, publications, and historical inquiries regarding objects. A...